2014/2015

2015/2016

DM270

L-FIL-LET/04 (LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

(22/02/2016 - 28/05/2016)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

BONADEO ALESSIA - 6 ECTS

Having passed the exam of Latin language and literature (basic course).

Aim of the course is acquiring, also by means of the reading of texts in Latin, a basic knowledge of the chronological profile and generic categories of Latin literature.

Reading, translation and linguistic commentary, entrusted to individual study, of two Latin texts:
a) Cicero, De amicitia or De senectute;
b) Virgil, Aeneid (one book by choice).
Historical approach to Latin literature from the beginnings to Apuleius; reference manuals: A. Cavarzere, A. De Vivo, P. Mastandrea, Letteratura latina. Una sintesi storica, Roma, Carocci editore, 2015 or G.B. Conte, Letteratura latina, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2012.
Monographic course: 'Ovid between epic and elegy'. Reading, translation and commentary of the texts discussed during the lectures.

N.B. It being understood that, owing to the specificity of the topics discussed, attendance is recommended, non attendant students are requested to contact the teacher in order to agree upon some critical essays providing a commentary for the Latin texts inherent in the monographic course.

Lectures

See program

The examination will take place in oral form and will concern in sequence the three items indicated in the program.

The examination will take place in oral form and will concern in sequence the three items indicated in the program.